Tara Leigh Patrick born April 20, , known professionally as Carmen Electra , [2] [3] is an American actress, model, singer, and media personality. She began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis , where she met Prince , who produced her self-titled debut studio album , released in Electra began glamour modeling in with frequent appearances in Playboy magazine.
She later relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress, playing the role of Lani McKenzie in the television drama series Baywatch — , which gained her status as a sex symbol. In , Electra joined the voice cast of the animated television series Tripping the Rift and was a regular until the series ended.
She has also occasionally worked as a dancer, most notably with The Pussycat Dolls , as a featured guest of the group on VH1 Divas Electra claims to be of Cherokee , German , and Irish descent, [13] and was very close to her family.
She said of her mother, "My mom was my rock," and described her older sister Debbie as being "like a second mother to me". Electra started her professional career in as a dancer at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio , in the show "It's Magic", one of the more popular shows in the park's history. In , Electra started appearing in television shows. In May , she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, the first of several.
She returned to Baywatch for the reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding. Electra was featured in Playboy four more times: June , December , April , and the January anniversary issue. She was on the cover of the last three of these issues. Electra's s feature film appearances include the horror film Scary Movie She was featured in some video spoofs of lonelygirl15 that advertised Epic Movie.
